On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:42 AM, Luis Lavena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:21 PM, Richard Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, I wrote the initial patch for --destdir support, and I have a >> couple of issues with r1841, I did email Luis and say I would have a >> look at the end of last month, but I've been a little tied up, sorry. >> > > Glad to have you back :-D > >> It uses RbConfig::TOPDIR, which on my x86_64 machine is nil, because >> of the way mkconfig generates TOPDIR. (It has a hardcoded 'lib' in it, >> my ruby is installed to 'lib64'. It looks like using >> RbConfig:CONFIG['prefix'] would be a better choice. >> > > Since there was no documentation on the expected results I just came > up with something that I was able to understand. > For the me idea was that --destdir will generate the same tree > hierarchy used by ruby and it's components, but having as parent > folder a different one. > > so: > > --destdir=/foo/bar > > will prepend /foo/bar to the /lib/ruby/gems/1.8 and related folder > structure... > > I think was a wrong assumption. > >> This patch has also changed the behaviour of --destdir, and I'm not >> sure if this is intentional or not. My intent in adding --destdir was >> to replicate the functionality of >> >> make DESTDIR="/image" install >> >> So setup.rb --destdir="/foo" would install to >> "/foo/usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8" with this revision it would now be >> installed to "/foo/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8", which is incorrect. >> > > The thing with that is /usr is not part of the ruby installation > structure, but the underliying OS/distro installation structure. /usr > has no meaning on Windows (XP, x64):
Then idea of destdir is to "install" to a certain location and then wrap this up as a binary package (or sometimes to a depot location, like in MacPorts). So the path has to contain the full PREFIX. Obviously this does not make a lot of sense on Windows with it's multi-device setup. I don't know what would be the right thing to do in that environment with this option. I guess you don't really need it. A good place to start reading about destdir might be this here: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html Florian -- Florian Ebeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
